Dropbox have published a detailed account of why and how they unplugged an entire data center to test their disaster readiness.
The disaster readiness team began building tools to make performing frequent failovers possible, and ran their first formalized failover in 2019.
Eventually, with new tooling and procedures, the data center was unplugged. This provided a significantly reduced RTO. By Matt Saunders
Dropbox have published a detailed account of why and how they unplugged an entire data center to test their disaster readiness.
The disaster readiness team began building tools to make performing frequent failovers possible, and ran their first formalized failover in 2019.
Eventually, with new tooling and procedures, the data center was unplugged. This provided a significantly reduced RTO.
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